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This Directive is without prejudice to national law as regards the definition of the terms ‘employee’, ‘employer’, ‘pay’, ‘right conferring immediate entitlement’ and ‘right conferring prospective entitlement’. However, the Member States may not exclude from the scope of this Directive: part-time employees within the meaning of Directive 97/81/EC; employees with a fixed-term contract within the meaning of Directive 1999/70/EC; employees with a temporary employment relationship within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Directive 91/383/EEC.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.